Folly Quote by Walter Savage Landor

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

— Walter Savage Landor

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

— Mason Cooley

“He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.”

— Anthony Powell

“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of…

— Albert Camus

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

— Pierre Corneille

Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

— Mason Cooley

I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

— Richelle Mead

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

— Edmond Rostand

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

— Berthold Auerbach

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not…

— Waris Dirie

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or…

— Henry Fielding

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable…

— Mark Twain

“The closest she got to pretence was politeness.”

— Alan Bennett